The Hidden Messages in Water is an eye-opening theory showing how
water is deeply connected to people's individual and collective
consciousness.
Drawing from his own research,
scientific researcher, healer, and popular lecturer Dr. Masaru Emoto
describes the ability of water to absorb, hold, and even retransmit
human feelings and emotions.
Using high-speed
photography, he found that crystals formed in frozen water reveal
changes when specific, concentrated thoughts are directed toward it.
Music,
visual images, words written on paper, and photographs also have an
impact on the crystal structure. Emoto theorizes that since water has
the ability to receive a wide range of frequencies, it can also reflect
the universe in this manner.
He found that
water from clear springs and water exposed to loving words shows
brilliant, complex, and colorful snowflake patterns, while polluted
water and water exposed to negative thoughts forms incomplete,
asymmetrical patterns with dull colors.
Emoto
believes that since people are 70 percent water, and the Earth is 70
percent water, we can heal our planet and ourselves by consciously
expressing love and goodwill.
About Dr. Masaru Emoto
Masaru
Emoto was born in Yokohama in July 1943. He is a graduate of the
Yokohama Municipal University's department of humanities and sciences
with a focus on International Relations. In 1986 he established the IHM
Corporation in Tokyo. In October of 1992 he received certification from
the Open International University as a Doctor of Alternative Medicine.
Subsequently he was introduced to the concept of micro clustered water in the US and Magnetic Resonance Analysis technology. The quest thus began to discover the mystery of water.
He
undertook extensive research of water around the planet not so much as
a scientific researcher but more from the perspective of an original
thinker. At length he realized that it was in the frozen crystal form
that water showed us its true nature through.
He
continues with this experimentation and has written a variety of well
received books in Japanese as well as the seminal Message from water
published bilingually.
He is married to
Kazuko Emoto who shares his passion and is head of Kyoikusha, the
publishing arm of his company. They have three children.
Review from Amazon.com:
1. This is a repackaged version of the research and photos of Dr. Emoto
that were originally in a set of books that included a Japanese version
of the text. This research has been popularized by a number of holistic
health practitioners and new science/new thought metaphysical
advocates. Emoto's evidence is very impressive, although I don't think
he fully understands how the water reacts to its environment in some
instances, such as the response of water to specific words. Words are
energetically connected to human concepts, so the word actually
transmits the concept/idea/feeling that people associate it with rather
than the word actually having an energy apart from the consciousness of
those who have used the word. If everyone suddenly decided that "satan"
"devil" and "Hitler" were positive forces then those words could become
positive influences on water. Water is inherently a neutral compound -
neutral pH, etc., which is perfect for transmitting energy and
information without corrupting the information. Emoto has done
wonderful work examining water all over the world and seeing how water
reacts to a variety of environmental stimuli. Follow-up controlled
research would be useful to examine how human beliefs, intentions, and
consciusness may influence how water responds to various tangible or
recordable stimuli. This book is valuable even just for the water
crystal photos throughout the book, and should inspire more people with
materialistic, mechanistic views to expand their awareness.
2. As much as there are pages with words in this book, there are just as
many pages with photographs from water crystals from all over the world
- from natural springs, from tap water, and then the images that were
taken when different music was played, or when different positive and
negative words and statements (samples were taking from many different
languages) were written on a piece of paper.
Some sample words and statements were "love" and "you fool". The
crystal which formed when the word "love" was written in Japanese
looked so beautiful and well defined, that it almost made me begin to
learn Japanese (soon, I will). But the havoc that the statement "you
fool" created - I think that all who happen to use these words
frequently either when referring to themselves or others, should take a
closer look to get a picture as to what it does to their bodies.
It has been known to those who are involved in metaphysical studies
that the vibration of love heals the body and that vibrations of fear,
hate, lies cause the cells of the body to fall apart. The pictures in
this book demonstrate what the vibrations of different ideas, thoughts,
emotions, statements and music do to water.
This is an enlightening book which is intended to demonstrate the
effect that music and words we use have on our bodies, given the fact
that our bodies are mainly composed out of water.
The current edition of the book is an expanded version of the
original book which contained only pictures and was reprinted due to
its great demand.
The author did make few statements, though, which I do not consider
entirely correct - one of them being that "ALL is made out of water" -
I believe that, at least in view of both quantum physics and
metaphysics, it would be more correct to state that - ALL is made out
of intelligent energy - and that water in this case was a medium for
experiments which have the workings of energy and vibration at the
core.
Having an esoteric background, when I picked up this book, I was
expecting it to go a little bit further - as in consciously intending
outcomes and projecting them upon the glass of water, instead of just
writing the words and statement on paper. One can, for example, also
use litmus paper to measure the changes in pH levels in water after
directing focused energy charged with specific thoughts, either purely
mentally or through one's hands, into the glass of water.
3. Amazing and beautiful pictures of water crystals as they react to
thoughts of anger, happiness, and other moods we have. We affect
everything around us, including water. Since we are made up of mostly
water, one can see what happens to water as it reacts. We drink the
stuff, so happiness and gratitude is flowing in the water we drink.
Very interesting!
4. When I was in my teens and early twenties, I had horrible, horrible
acne. I tried all kinds of things; medicines, creams, soaps. My acne
would dissapear for a little bit and then come back with a vengeance. I
was about ready to give up. But one day I was sitting there and I was
just looking at a glass of water I had poured. The morning sunlight
that was streaming in through the kitchen windows hit the glass of
water just right and it really caught my attention; it was absolutely
beautiful. I held up that glass of water to the sun and said from a
place of love, "This is beauty water. This water cleanses, purifies,
and beautifies my skin..." And then I drank the water. The water
actually tasted better...it was so weird...
This was about six months before I got into learning about
affirmations and visualizations and all that other metaphysical "mumbo
jumbo" that people are so quick to put down but so slow in
investigating the "matter" or should I say, "the Spirit" for
themselves. But every time I got a glass of water, I held it up and
said the statement, "This is beauty water. This water cleanses,
purifies and beautifies my skin..." Would you believe in less than a
week my skin completely cleared up and whenever I did breakout, it was
usually small and disappeared within a few days.
Dr. Emoto's book really hit home with me. Without me even knowing
what I was doing, I was actually changing the structure of the water I
was drinking. I was literally changing the composition of the water
with my words! Now you can scoff all you want, but something happened
that I cannot explain. Like I said earlier, nothing worked. Even my
dermatologist asked me what I was doing. I told him and he looked like
he wanted to wet his pants. Could you imagine if every patient of his
did what I did? He would quickly go out of business.
Now that I am more consciously aware of certain universal laws and
principles for instance, "thoughts are things" and "what we focus on we
attract" I not only bless the water that I drink, but the food that I
eat. Sometimes I will "pig out" and eat a box of fudge...see my review
on the best fudge in the world...and I will tell that fudge that it
will only be used for energy. I will not gain an ounce of fat. Yes, I
do workout, but I'm in my early 40s and my metabolism has really s l o
w e d down...
I know the skeptics who are reading this review are probably having
a field day and although my "experiments" have not been proven, the
experiments in this book have been. When, oh, when are we going to
realize that the whole universe is alive and vibrant and conscious of
Itself? We live in a thinking universe and not one bit of it is "dead
matter". It is beautiful and in each and every moment, everything is
cleansed, purified, and beautified....
Believe it and one day you may come to know that it's true.
5. The photos are nice and beautiful and if you are a deeply religious
person you probably will take the face value of the book. At least the
idea is interesting. However, the methods described didn't sound
particulary scientific and made it very difficult for others to attempt
to duplicate it. If I ever get a hand on a high res microscope and a
sub-freezing room, I will give it a shot with Bach and Iron Maiden,
however, I find it hard to believe.
The question is, why would good thoughts, beautiful music, kind
words make the ice into beautiful, symmetric shapes while violent
music, thoughts give ugly shapes ? If you walk down the street, there
are ugly people and beautiful people and average looking people. Are
their thoughts and hearts as ugly or as beautiful as their appearances
?
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